"Stunning debut novel by a wise new voice in American fiction" - Dave Gantt, librarian, Washington, DC, in a review on Amazon.com.
"... a wonderfully guilty pleasure: like reading Valley of the Dolls or something with all the juicy stuff and art stuff that is actually believable!" - Becky Hendrick, author of Getting It: a Guide to Understanding and Appreciating Art (Houghton Mifflin).
"Blooming bodily desires, racism, and rock and roll take their turns enlivening the plot, yet the writer’s primary concern is to focus on the growth of an artistic imagination in such fertile ground. - Larry Johnson, Southern Quarterly.
